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| -rw-r--r-- | ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/syntax/refinements.rdoc | 8 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +Fri Aug 2 09:14:47 2013 Eric Hodel <[email protected]> + + * doc/syntax/refinements.rdoc: Improve description of where you may + activate refinements. + Fri Aug 2 07:45:55 2013 Tanaka Akira <[email protected]> * bignum.c (big2str_orig): Remove len argument. diff --git a/doc/syntax/refinements.rdoc b/doc/syntax/refinements.rdoc index 519082e2f9..752f668923 100644 --- a/doc/syntax/refinements.rdoc +++ b/doc/syntax/refinements.rdoc @@ -48,9 +48,11 @@ Activate the refinement with #using: == Scope -You may activate refinements at top-level to the end of the file or in a -string passed to Kernel#eval, Kernel#instance_eval or Kernel#module_eval until -the end of the string. +You may only activate refinements at top-level, not inside any class, module +or method scope. You may activate refinements in a string passed to +Kernel#eval, Kernel#instance_eval or Kernel#module_eval that is evaluated at +top-level. Refinements are active until the end of the file or the end of the +eval string, respectively. Refinements are lexical in scope. When control is transferred outside the scope the refinement is deactivated. This means that if you require or load a |